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Helping my parents fix up their house. Using online resources and ChatGPT I fixed the AC myself for the second time. First time parts were 20 (capacitor) this time 12 dollars (contactor). Also cleaned the coils and vacuumed the inside since I had to take the fan off.

Stay safe though! It’s 220 volts of electricity if you fuck up you might die.

Disclaimer. I’m not an electrician or work in any related field. Please be careful around 240v power. I’m just a handy guy with lots of time to fix my parents house and I’ve been posting periodically to share what I’ve learned about maintenance which is crucial to keep things buy it for life.

The AC went out and I had just replaced the capacitor on the AC 6 months ago so immidiately I thought that was the problem. That was the extent of my experience fixing ACs before.

I’m currently fixing up my parents house so I incorrectly assumed the breaker that said AC was the right one but that was for a different AC unit. After I used my multimeter to test the capacitors resistance I was able to establish it was still in working order.

Online resources pointed me to the contactor next. The contactor is basically a relay, I actually don’t know if there’s a difference between a relay and a contactor. But when you turn your thermostat to cool the contactor receives 24v of power and routes electricity to your fan which blows air through coils cooled by the condenser. Anyways it was receiving power. Actually your contactor receives power even with no power to the AC so you can test it without powering the AC.

Important to note that there are two ways to cut power to the AC, your breaker and the disconnect. You should remove the disconnect AND turn off the breaker. This is actually what saved my butt from getting electrocuted because I had the wrong breaker switch off. I also test the power just in case everytime with my meter so I guess I’d be fine anyways.

Here’s where I fucked up. My online resource said that the contactor should physically contract which it didn’t do so I thought it was broken. Turns out it doesn’t actually move noticeably from the outside just on the inside. At least my model. What would have been better would be to listen for a click but since my AC unit is far from the thermostat I didn’t think this was a viable way to test it. I also maybe could have tested resistance across the contactor. Or better yet tested the power to the fan when on

So I ended up buying a contactor from home depot and then installing it. Really simple. But it didn’t solve the problem. That’s when I noticed a flipped switch at the breaker and turned it on and the ac started working. Sucks I put all that energy for nothing but I learned a lot and actually I removed the fan now so I can properly vacuum the inside and clean the coils which is basic AC maintenance.

An ac is actually simple and modular for repair and maintenance not much going on in there if you’re only looking to replace broken parts.

TLDR: AC units are simple to fix but dangerous if not done properly. You just need to figure out which part needs to be replaced and often those parts are cheap.

30 year old Baldwin door handle. It’s scuffed up and has paint marks so I was going to replace it. I didn’t know anything about door handles. But I felt the weight of it in my hand and it felt really dense and I looked it up and saw they go for 300-500 dollars. Had I not already bought the replacements I would’ve brought it to someone to fix the scuffs and restore it. But I’ll try and sell it on eBay.

Printed a zipper head for my jacket. $600 motorcycle jacket and zipper broke within a month. Applied some zipper lubricant and used pliers to push the zipper thingy closer together and that stopped it from pulling apart after zip.

Im taking care of my parents house and I hired someone to do yard cleanup because it’s too much work for one person. The gardener tried some of my hoses and saw they were leaky when he hooked them up to my pressure washer. Found it somewhat suspicious because I’m not a gardener and I was able to figure out they could easily be repaired. I bought a set of 6 repair kit and fixed all 4 hoses in about 15 minutes. Hoses are probably 20-30 years old. Still have some adapters left over.

I got this awesome dolly, I’m not sure how old it is but it worked beautifully to pull up my fridge up a flight of stairs. It is pretty heavy maybe 50 lbs but I love that has the stair helpers and I really solid ratcheting system. I actually brought a much bigger fridge up the stairs but I don’t have photos. I would love to get a pick up truck just for fb marketplace hunting in the future. Stuff like this brings me joy.

It could probably use some oil and rust protection but seemed like previous owner use it heavily and it’s still looking great

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Just pull the cable out and push it back in when you’re done. I used an 11/16th t grommet from Amazon, and a dremel cut an oval shape into the grommet cord hole so the USB c head sits nicely. The cable slack slides into the fairings although requires some force